» Visit The Town In A Day Or In A Weekend
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Milan in a day: The natural pace of Milan may help, but it is certainly hard to imagine that even the most frantic traveller might succeed in getting an idea of the city in just 24 hours. However, Milan has an advantage and that is that it has the highest concentration of things worth seeing in its historical city centre, which is relatively small and can be visited on foot without clocking up too many kilometres. Therefore, stopwatch at the ready, it´s time to touch down in the centre of the metropolis: Piazza del Duomo . But .. [more »]

» Galleria Vittorio Emanuele Ii
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The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a covered double arcade formed of two glass-vaulted arcades at right angles intersecting in an octagon; it is prominently sited on the northern side of the Piazza del Duomo in Milan , and connects to the Piazza della Scala . Named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of united Italy, it was originally designed in 1861 and built by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877. The street is covered over by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for nineteenth-century arcades, such as .. [more »]

» Palazzo Dell´arte Or Della Triennale
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It was built by Giovanni Murzio in 1931 as a legacy left by senator Antonio Bernocchi, who intended to donate a permanent museum for the Triennial Exhibition of Decorative Arts to the city. Since 1923, and with changing fortunes, the Triennale has played a prominent role in the debate on Italian architecture and now exhibitions and seminars follow one another at a much faster pace than its name might imply. The most important exhibitions are held in Galleria della Triennale , an exhibition space which was designed by Gae Aulenti in .. [more »]

» Pinacoteca Di Brera
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The Pinacoteca di Brera (" Brera Art Gallery ") is an art collection in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera . The Palazzo Brera owes its name to the Germanic braida, indicating a grassy opening in the city structure: compare the Bra of Verona. The convent on the site passed to the Jesuits (1572), then underwent a radical rebuilding by Francesco Maria Richini (1627-28). When the Jesuits were .. [more »]

» Colonne Di San Lorenzo
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The Colonne di San Lorenzo is the best-known Roman ruin in Milan . It is located in front of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. It is a square with a row of columns on either side, which were taken from a temple or public bath house dating from the 2nd century. The columns were moved to their current location sometime in the 4th century. South of the columns, one of the medieval gates of the city is still in place, with Roman marbles in it. Up until 1935, the space between the church and columns was entirely occupied by old houses abutting onto .. [more »]